Just posting some of the praise that The Mask Behind the Face received. Not that I have a fragile ego in need of constant reassurance you understand ... by the way did I mention that Mask won a British Fantasy Award?

Anyway, here's the quotes, including some that coudn't be fitted on the cover of the new limited edition that goes on sale at WHC 2010.

"Wow, what an impressive story ... ambitious, in fact downright audacious" T.E.D. Klein

"No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended." Mark Chadbourn

"It's wonderful. A great page-flipper and yet so much more: truly terrifying in its denouement, and that final line is a monster! Like William Hope Hodgson dragged into the latter-day: one of the best I've read in a long while." Gary Fry

"In this brilliant novella Young really cuts loose, positing a series of insights that transcend the questions we as human beings inevitably ask when confronted by the tormenting concepts of infinity and eternity.” Mark Samuels

" ... an engaging and well written story, brimful of believable characters, intriguing concepts and a satisfying ambivalence about matters metaphysical." The Third Alternative

Not just you. I still have 'a writer to watch' stuck over my computer for the ego stroking requirement, though there's not been much for people to watch/read for a while. I can't recommend 'teaching while you write' to anyone...

Also makes it a bugger to sell vampire stories that aren't Twi-lite. I've had two get to second stage considerations only to be dropped before print. I suppose it could be my writing but I'm clinging to market excuses...

I suspect even those writing "Twi-lite" these days will find it hard to get it published.
From what I can gather, the trend has already moved or is moving from romantic teen vampires and into romantic teen angels--or rather, angel-lite.

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